The prospect of companies bringing overseas manufacturing jobsback to the United States has gotten some press recently. But aBusinessweek article argues that the examples of companiesbringing production jobs back to the U.S. are more than offset bythe many companies that continue to send such jobs overseas.

Part of the argument for reshoring is that the cost advantage ofmanufacturing in China is eroding as wages there rise. ButBusinessweek says companies that move manufacturing out ofChina are more likely to send the work to lower-wage companies inAsia.

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